Word: shotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly before the U.N.'s Fourth General Assembly opened at Flushing Meadows this week, Secretary General Trygve Lie performed a solemn duty. He unveiled a commemorative plaque (the first in U.N.'s history) for U.N. Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte, shot down just a year ago by assassins in Jerusalem. The best that could be said on this occasion was that, in the past year, neither the violence in Palestine nor any other of the world's conflicts had flared into a general...
More tragic was the reaction of 73-year-old Dr. Alberto F. Jordan, presiding judge of the Buenos Aires civil high court. When a Senate telegram told him that he had not been confirmed, the old man went into his study, pulled out a revolver and shot himself. The Peronista press ignored his death. Even Buenos Aires' once-great and independent La, Prensa played it pianissimo. In an obituary praising Jordan's 40 years on the bench, La Prensa reported he had died "unexpectedly...
...Loyalists shot young Moscardo...
...Jake Kramer as his opponent and little Bobby Riggs (who plans to be just a part-time player) as promoter. The deal calls for Pancho to pocket 30% of the gate, against Kramer's 25%. The $50,000 or so he expects to make in one quick shot dwarfs any amount he could make in years of wrangling and ducking behind doors as an expense-account amateur. All set to follow Pancho's lead is poker-faced Frank Parker, ranked No. 3, whose prospective opponent for this fall's tour is Francisco Segura. That will leave...
...sharp-faced, elderly (66) Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland. Sir Geoffrey, who had designed and flown his first plane in 1909 (it crashed), has turned out some of Britain's best-known military planes (Mosquito, Vampire). It was his firm that developed the famed Ghost jet engine that shot a De Havilland fighter to the world's altitude record (56,400 ft.) and started Sir Geoffrey thinking about a jet transport...